Manually-operable head-massaging device



M y 21, 1929 R. H. HASSLER 1,713,756

7 MANUALLY OPERABLE HEAD MASSAGING DEVICE Filed Aug. 9, 1926 1N VEN TOR.

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A TTORN E YE Patented May 21, 1929. i

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT E. HASSLER, OF INDIAlil'AIPOLIS, INDIANA.

MANUALLY-OPERABLE HEAD-MASSAGING DEVICE.

Application filed August 9, 1926. Serial No. 128,089.

This invention relates to a massaging detial diameter with its exposedsurface cir- 50 vice, and particularly to improvements in cular in crosssection. The to) surface 12 pads or massaging elements adapted for useof the body is slightly concave in formation in massaging the humanhead. While the lower surface 13 thereof is like- One feature of theinvention resides in the wise slightly concave in formation so thatprovision of a pad of soft rubber or other the center is relatively thinas compared with flexible material provided on the lower side thethickness thereof adjacent the bead 11. thereof with a concave surfaceconforming in Formed integral with the bead and body a general way tothe shape of the head. I The portion there are a plurality of downwardlyupper side also is formed with a concave surextending projections orfingers 14, the same face or depression for reception of the fingersextending from the head 11 and the thicker of the operator. Theflexibility or elasticity portion of the body adjacent thereto and ofthe body portion avoids undue friction tapering downwardl as illustratedin Fig. 2.

and prevents injury to the scalp when the de- The upper concavity ordepression within 15 vice is worked back and forth on the head thesurrounding head 11 and formed by the under the pressure of the hands.concave surface 12 of the body portion pro- Another feature of theinvention is the vides a convenient recess for receiving the provisionon the lower side of a pad of a fingers of anyone operating ormanipulating plurality of flexible rubber projections or finthe pad,while the lower concave surface 13 20 gers formed to taper away from thebody of conforms substantially to the curvature of the pad. Said fingersmay be arranged 1n the head. one or more rows about the outside of theIn the modified form shown in Fig. 3, the

. pad, leaving a central space whereby the gen construction is the sameas above described eral shape of the lower side of the pad,'when withrespect to Figs. 1 and 2 with the ex- 2 pressed into working position,is approxiccption that there is provided an inner annumately concave.lar row of projections or fingers 15 lighter In some forms of thedevice, it may be prefand of lesser length and formed on the innererable to form the projections or fingers in portion of the pad insideof the outer row 2 or 3 more rows with the outer row longer ofprojections 14.

no andheavier than the inner row or rows. This In Fig. 4 there is shownthe same pad as arrangement tends toward giving the under abovedescribed with respect to Figs. 1 and so side of the device the desiredconcave forma- 2. having a plurality of still smallen and tion whenoperated. shorter projections 16, 16 and 16 projecting The full natureof the invention will be from the under concave surface 13 and withunderstood from the accompanying drawings in the surrounding projections14 and 15.

and the following description and claim. The invention claimed is:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the pad. Fig. In a pad for manuallymassaging the hu- 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 thereof. manhead, a flexible body portion, a stiffen- Fig. 3 is the same as Fig.2showing a modi-v ing bead surrounding said body portion, said 4 fiedformhaving two annular rows of probody portion having concave upper andlowjections. Fig. 4is the same as Fig. 2 showing er surfaces whereby thesame will be thina further modified form provided Witha pluner in thecenter than adjacent the edges, rality of annular rows of projectionsextend and a plurality of flexible projections extending throughout theinner surface thereof. ing downwardly from the under side there- 45 Inthe drawings there is shown a pad or of and tapering therefrom.

massaging element formed of soft rubber or In witness whereof I havehereunto aflixed v other elastic or flexible material, and commysignature. prising a body portion 10 surrounded by a stiffening orreinforcing bead 11 of substan- I I ROBERT H. HASSLER.

